Emigration in European Union
The European Union recorded 3,166,449 emigrants in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2013. The source marks a break in the series within this span, so values before and after it may not be fully comparable.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
The latest value carries the source flag “Source flag ep”.
European Union, 2024
3,166,449ep (Source flag ep)
Change from 2023
+4.9%
Emigration in European Union over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
People. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3,166,449 emigrantsep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2023 | 3,017,592 emigrantsep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2022 | 2,694,009 emigrantsep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2021 | 2,692,807 emigrantsbe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2020 | 2,141,596 emigrantsep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2019 | 2,562,378 emigrantsep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2018 | 2,400,434 emigrantsep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2017 | 2,583,494 emigrantsep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2016 | 2,635,757 emigrantsep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2015 | 2,450,290 emigrantsbep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
| 2014 | 2,439,337 emigrantsbep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
| 2013 | 2,444,099 emigrantsbep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
Flags: bep break in time series, estimated, provisional; ep estimated, provisional; be break in time series, estimated . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +4.9% from 3,017,592 emigrants in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 2,439,337 emigrants, the figure has changed by +29.8%.
More for European Union
All statistics for European Union
Immigration
5,684,984ip (Source flag ip) immigrants
2024 · Eurostat
Net migration
-317,019 people
2025 · World Bank
Acquisitions of citizenship
1,177,232 people
2024 · Eurostat
First-time asylum applicants
672,350 applicants
2025 · Eurostat
Net migration rate
4.6ep (Source flag ep) per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat
International migrant stock
14.1%
2024 · World Bank